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    SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
    On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:31:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > Willy Tarreau wrote:
    > >
    > >Well, I accidentally used a freshly installed laptop running mandriva 2008.
    > >I was typing in a terminal inside KDE (I don't know the program name, sort
    > >of an xterm, but with huge borders all around). I made a typo in a word and
    > >typed in a "é" (e acute). Pressing backspace to fix it showed me that I
    > >remove more chars than typed. I tried again. Pressing this letter 5 times,
    > >then 10 times backspace. I removed 5 chars from the prompt. I suspect that
    > >if I had used some chars with wider encoding (eg 4 bytes), I could have
    > >removed as many... Clearly those tools are not ready.
    > >
    >
    > Presumably, this was konsole.

    Possible. It was the one you get by clicking on a terminal icon.
    Huuhhh what an horror, I'm discussing icons and GUIs on LKML. I must
    take my meds :-)

    > konsole works fine with UTF-8 (I use it
    > that way every day); the most common cause of this kind of problems is
    > people explicitly clobbering the locale or charset class defaults in
    > their login scripts.

    I really doubt the miss would have done this. Or someone would have done
    it for her which I really doubt in such a small time frame after a fresh
    install from the day before. I will investigate though.

    Willy

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